Bioeconomics of schooling fishes: Selfish fish, quasi-free riders, and other fishy tales

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-364

  Landa, Janet T ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Any one leader' rule; Anti predator defense devices; Collective action; Economic theory of clubs; Free riders; Homotypic fish schools; Hydrodynamic benefits; Public choice theory; Selfish fish; Theory of public goods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; FISH; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031765416     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007414603324     Document Type: Review

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